Outdoor bridge

As explained in Acing the CCNA Exam: Volume 2 Advanced Networking and Security

An outdoor bridge is a wireless access point role that provides a wireless bridge link between network locations in outdoor deployments.

An outdoor bridge is an access point role that connects separate LANs wirelessly between buildings or remote sites, avoiding expensive physical cabling across campuses or metropolitan areas. section 18.4.3

Key operational characteristics:

• Supports point-to-point links between two sites and point-to-multipoint links from several sites to a central site. section 18.4.3
• Uses directional antennas to focus the signal and preserve strength over longer distances. section 18.4.3
• Can span many kilometers, but achievable distance depends on hardware and external conditions, especially clear line of sight. section 18.4.3

Figure 18.21 APs functioning as outdoor bridges can connect LANs wirelessly over long distances.

Use the topology figure to visualize two access points connecting separate LANs over a long-distance wireless bridge. section 18.4.3

How Acing the CCNA Exam: Volume 2 Advanced Networking and Security covers it

How deep it goes

Explains role, link topologies, antenna behavior, distance, and line-of-sight limitations without configuration details.

Examples

Uses campus or metropolitan buildings, point-to-point links, and point-to-multipoint links as deployment examples.

What you can do after

Evaluate whether an outdoor bridge suits a site link by checking topology, distance, hardware, antenna direction, and line of sight.

How it connects

Ties wireless bridges to access points, LANs, directional antennas, point-to-point links, and point-to-multipoint links.

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Related concepts

• local networkuses · A local network is a computer network connecting devices within a limited physical or administrative area, such as a home, office, or campus.
• wireless access pointuses · A wireless access point is a network device that provides wireless connectivity between client devices and a network.
• access point operational modekind of · An access point operational mode is a configuration that determines how a wireless access point performs controller-managed wireless functions.

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